Canvas Deploy Notes (2020-06-06) Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features, but they do not affect customer workflows. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be test... 
How do I create a new page in a course? As an instructor, you can create a new page to add to your course. When creating pages, you can set page permissions as to who can edit the page: instructors (teachers), instructors and students, or anyone. You can al... 
Allow instructor to block/moderate student from discussion board 326Open for Voting
328 votesI have an instructor who says a student is repeatedly posting inappropriate content in a Discussion Board, even after the instructor has given guidance as to appropriate posting. Currently, the only way to contr... 
How do I hide grades that were previously posted in the Gradebook? The Hide Grades feature only affects previously posted grades for an assignment. Best practice suggests that instructors should use this feature sparingly (i.e. to hide grades posted in error). To hide all grades upon... Google Drive on Canvas Hi, I'm trying to disengage Google Drive share. Currently it's sharing with my Google Drive and I can't seem to disconnect that. Thanks, Steve Cardamone 
Assistance with running an active course report for the 19-20 year showing the teacher name assigned to the course I need to run a report that will shows all of the active courses for all schools along with the teachers assigned to them for this current term 2019-2020. 
Student view: View submissions and comments for all submissions 683Open for Voting
685 votesRight now students can only view their most recently added submission to an assignment. This means that all previous submissions to the assignment are not available to students, including feedback that the instructors... 
UDOIT Information What is UDOIT? The Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT (pronounced, “You Do It”) enables faculty to identify accessibility issues in their Canvas course content. It will scan a course... 
Use of Canvas in high school math to assess and teach I am a high school math teacher. And as is true for all, we have moved into a world of distance learning. Canvas has been used more as an organized assignment list in the past before Covid-19. But now our school is ex... 
Comprehensive Course Search Tool (Searching Course Content for a Topic) 759Open for Voting
759 votesI always find it useful to search for content using an index or an actual search tool rather than just scrolling through all of the pages one by one to find what I need. I can see many uses for this: As a stude... 
mindtap how do we use Mindtap with canvas? new student here. thanks! 
Ready-Made & Custom Templates Where do I find instructions for importing Ready-Made & Custom Templates into a course? 
Make the Confetti for On-Time Submissions an Option 15Open for Voting
15 votesThe recently released Assignment Submission Celebration has garnered quite a bit of conversation over the last month. It's very obvious that they people of many different opinions about it. Everyone's opin... 
How do I get help with Canvas as a student? You can get help with Canvas by using the Help menu. The Help menu generates a list of resources to help you with Canvas. Canvas displays links according to roles in all enrollments; for instance, if you are a student... Instructor ability to reorder discussion boards 3Open for Voting
3 votesDiscussions are currently ordered by "recent activity". Instructors should be able to select the order that discussions appear on the Discussion Page. Ordering discussions by their due dates or release dates is pref... 
Improve Grade One Question at a time 164Open for Voting
164 votesFirst i still see the entire exam of one student, not just one question. Second I am not able to look at a grade all of one particular question for ALL of my students at one time. This gives a more consist... 
Why isn't there an option to restrict viewing? Hello, I was trying to write a script that enables the following but there seems to not be an option for them. Students can only participate in the course between these dates Restrict students from viewing t... 
Cannot retrieve rubric selected answers from submissions (using api v1 json return) Greetings! I am having a bit of trouble with canvas. For some reason I cannot get rubric data (neither scores or selected answers) for assignment peer review submissions. Some of the students did answer the pe... 
Weighted Course Rubric How do I create a weighted rubric for my course? 
See all of a student's posts together 125Open for Voting
127 votesIn order to assess and grade a student on participation in the discussion boards, it would be helpful to be able to see all of that student's posts aggregated on a single page. Of course the replies will be out of co... 
